The New York Post maligned President Barak Obama in an overtly racist cartoon depicting two police officers, one is
pointing a smoking gun at a large chimpanzee, lying on the ground clearly shot dead. The caption reads "They'll have to find someone else to write
the stimulus bill."

The cartoon in Wednesday's (2/18/09) edition on the infamous "Page Six," is a crass distortion of a recent horrific incident in which a 200
pound pet chimpanzee mauls a woman and police shoot and kill him.

NYC Councilman Charles Barron has called for A City Wide Emergency Protest Demonstration. The protest will be held on Thursday,
February 19, 2009 at 12 noon in front of the New York Post main offices at 1211 Avenue of the Americas (between 47th and 48th
Streets) New York, NY.

"The clearly racist tone is outrageous," said Colette Pean of the Women of Obama. "We are in support of Councilman Barron and
we must let the New York Post know this will not be tolerated by the people in this city."

Invited speakers joining Councilman Barron include Reverend Al Sharpton of the National Action Network, NYC, State Senator Bill Perkins, State Assemblywoman
Inez Barron, Viola Plummer of the Women for Obama, Monica Moorehead of the International Action Center, and representatives of the Committee to Eliminate
Media Offensive To African People (CEMOTAP),20December 12th Movement, NAACP-Jamaica Queens, Harriet Tubman, Black Men's Movement, and many others.

Ok so I don't know if you heard about this but this is a cartoon that they placed on Page Six of the New York Post. The back story to this cartoon is
that there was a wild chimpanzee that attacked an older lady and as a result of this, had to be shot and killed by police the other night. This is the
cartoon that ran in the post the next day.

Needless to say, it is not only racially insensitive, it is indicative of how the NY post has historically maintained an position of constantly printing
articles that are demeaning to people of color.

With that said I am calling on all people who find this cartoon offensive to boycott the NY Post. Do not purchase it, do not read it and encourage others to
do the same. If you must read the New York Post then do so only to make a list of the companies that advertise in the New York Post and let them know that
you will no longer be supporting them if they continue to advertise in the New York Post.

I am specifically calling on all Hip Hop websites, blogs and radio programs to address this issue with the same fervor with which they address the
"Rick Ross vs 50 Cent" beef or whatever incessant nonsense it is that they spew under the guise of giving you "Hip Hop News". I
watched Curtis Silvia of the "Guardian Angels" sit on NY1 News tonight and say that he thought there was nothing wrong with the cartoon since
rappers say worse things when they are making fun of each other. Let's show them that we can address issues more serious than the "Chris Brown -
Rhianna" situation. If the Hip Hop media cannot take a position on this then they need to be held accountable as well.

It is sad that during a such historic time in our nation that we as African Americans are still having to fight these kinds of battles on a DAILY basis. If
we are truly to affect change then that begins with us being the change that we want to see. To make a long story short, its time for us to let our voices be
heard in regards to this issue. Its time that we boycott this newspaper and let them know in a language that they will understand. The language of economics.

DO NOT BUY THE NY POST NEWSPAPER!!!

Priest

At a date in time where Obhama has had numerous threats on his life and police have been trigger happy shooting or tasing to death Black men from coast
to coast-what was this about? Time to boycott everything owned by Fox-from the NY Post to American Idol

Yeah, the NYPost is a tabloid newspaper with a sensationalist slant. The cartoon didn't register with me until the uproar. Otherwise, I'd have summed
it up as typical NYPost banter. I don't equate monkeys with specific racial groups, though it can be argued that ALL humans have close relations with
primates, regardless of how glorified or saintly they feel.

Public Enemy wrote a song about the NYPost back in the '90's, so this is nothing new at all...just reruns/remakes!!!

I'm reminded of the ink blot test, you know, where you say the first thing that pops into your mind when you see a picture. So wouldn't you be a racist
if the first thing you think about is how can this cartoon be racist? Everybody knows what the real story behind the cartoon is. Besides, we all know that the
president didn't write the stimulus bill, a bunch of white people from congress did, so reffering to this cartoon as racist is a stretch and a cry for
attention and drama in a already stuggling economy. Don't we as American have something better to do with our times than complain on how people interprit a
picture that wasn't intended to offend?

Real quick, which section of the constitution grants the president power to write a stimulus bill? NONE!!! This was a bill completely stuffed with democratic
interest and they all had a hand in writing it. Have you ever heard the phrase "it's so easy a monkey could do it?" That's all this was
referring to. The real problem is all you bleeding hearts looking for anything that can be intrepreted as questionable so you can jump all over it. And as
for Al Sharpton, that guy is a fucking moron. "I guess they thought we were chimpanzees. They will find out we are lions" he says. Doesn't that
guy know that chimps are one of the smartest animals in the entire kingdom and can actually use simple tools to accomplish tasks. Lions on the other hand are
lazy 95% of the time, aggresive when they want something that isn't theirs, and happy to let females find food and raise the young. Sounds like he's
perpetuating a popular stereotype of the modern black man. Shame on him.